> computer innovation peaked somewhere in the 2000s
What's your definition of computer innovation?
Hardware: GAAFET is just starting to land, 3D NAND emerged around 2013, EUV landed in around 2018...
Software: C++ (bad old days) -> Java (bad but memory safe) -> NodeJS (async, memory safe) -> Golang (memory safe without an external VM) -> Rust (memory safe C++ - more or less)
That's a definite progression, and at this point any new language needs to be memory safe to be taken seriously...
Algorithms: Google Pagerank -> ChatGPT, et al
Protocols: Forums -> Digg / Reddit -> Twitter -> Fediverse
I see progression all around...
